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The library of America volume 96
Pub. Date
c1997
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"Here are all of Stevens' published books of poetry, side-by-side for the first time with the haunting lyrics of his later years and early work that traces the development of his art. From the rococo inventiveness of Harmonium, his first volume (including such classics as "Sunday Morning," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"), through "Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction," "Esthetique du Mal," "The Auroras of Autumn,"...
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The Library of America volume 92
Pub. Date
c1997
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Collects some of the most significant writings of naturalist John Muir, in which he discusses his life in Scotland and America, his fascination with the natural world, his spiritual awakening in the Sierra mountains, and other highlights of his career.
63) Writings
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The Library of America volume 91
Pub. Date
©1997
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A collection of over 440 letters, orders, addresses, diaries, and other personal and public documents written by George Washington over the course of five decades, including writings from the Revolutionary War years, and his two terms as president.
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The library of America volume 101
Pub. Date
©1998
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A collection of fiction stories by Eudora Welty that portray life in the southern Mississippi area.
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The library of America volume 97
Pub. Date
©1998
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Contains three novels and a collection of short stories by American author James Baldwin.
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The library of America volume 102
Pub. Date
1998
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"Stories, Essays, and Memoir" presents Welty's collected short stories, an astonishing body of work that has made her one of the most respected writers of short fiction. "A Curtain of Green and Other Stories" (1941), her first book, includes many of her most popular stories, such as "A Worn Path, " "Powerhouse, " and the farcical "Why I Live at the P.O." "The Wide Net and Other Stories" (1943), in which historical figures such as Aaron Burr ("First...
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The library of America volume 99
Pub. Date
1998
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The first in a two-volume set of works combines fiction with the author's personal experiences in Paris and includes the play Four Saints in Three Acts and Lifting Belly, in which she documents her wonderful relationship with Alice B. Toklas.
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The library of America volume 100
Pub. Date
1998
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This second volume includes works written between 1932 and her death in 1946, years in which she gained a wider readership and made a triumphant return to the United States as a lecturer, but chose ultimately to remain in France during World War II. It opens with the poetic sequence Stanzas in Meditation (complete text published posthumously in 1946), perhaps Stein’s most austere and rigorous experiment in linguistic abstraction. In Lectures in...
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The Library of America volume 108
Pub. Date
©1999
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Sermons in the 20th century continued to wrestle with fundamental spiritual and civic concerns. The works collected here reveal an astonishing range: from a rousing homily on charity by the popular evangelist Billy Sunday to a moving discourse on interfaith cooperation by Abraham Joshua Heschel ("God is an outcry wrung from heart and mind ... It can only be uttered in astonishment"). Harry Emerson Fosdick's controversial "Shall the Fundamentalists...
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The Library of America volume 163
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A collection of some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's most definitive works includes "All My Sons," "Death of a Salesman," "The Crucible," "A View from the Bridge," and five additional plays.
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Library of America volume 182s
Pub. Date
[2008]
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As America and the world grapple with the consequences of global environmental change, the author, a writer and activist offers this anthology gathering the best and most significant American environmental writing from the last two centuries. "Each advance in environmental practice" in our nation's history, he observes in his introduction, "was preceded by a great book." In this work are the words that made a movement. Classics of the environmental...
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Library of America volume 307
Pub. Date
[2018]
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Library of America launches its Rachel Carson edition with this deluxe illustrated volume presenting one of the landmark books of the twentieth century together with rare letters, speeches, and other writings that reveal the personal courage and passionate commitment of its author...--Amazon.com
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[2020]
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Gifts: When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift of "unmaking"--a violent talent shared by members of his family--he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Voices: Young Memer takes on a pivotal role in freeing her war-torn homeland from its oppressive captors.
Powers: When young Gavir's sister is brutally killed, he escapes from...
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Library of America volume 338
Pub. Date
[2020]
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This first volume in the Library of America edition of Octavia E. Butler's collected works opens with her masterpiece, Kindred, one of the landmark American novels of the last half century. Its heroine, Dana, a Black woman, is pulled back and forth between the present and the pre-Civil War past, where she finds herself enslaved on the plantation of a white ancestor whose life she must save to preserve her own. In Fledgling, an amnesiac discovers that...
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